Bloodline

The Lost Kingdom

The Boxes

Skin and Bone

Isle of Blood and Stone: Tower of Winds

Hammer of Witches

Darkbeast

Forged in Fire and Stars

Chronicles of Will Ryde & Awa Maryam

Istanbul, 1591 - and Sultan Murad III, the mightiest ruler in the world, has been robbed. The Staff of Moses has been stolen from his private collection of religious artefacts in the Topkapi Palace - right from under his imperial nose! The wooden Staff, held by Moses as he parted the Red Sea, is a magical symbol of power worth a kings ransom - and the furious Sultan wants it back.

A small undercover unit of hand-picked, trusted warriors is hastily assembled to track down the thieves. They are the Rüzgar the Wind and like the wind, they travel silently and unseen. Awa, the studious daughter of a noble family from the Songhai Empire in West Africa, was kidnapped and enslaved by Moroccans after the disastrous Battle of Tondibi. Awa is a whirling and deadly force when she has a scimitar in her hand. Will, who was snatched from his home in London at the age of 5, is now 16 and a galley slave on board a Moroccan warship. Joining the Rüzgar turns him into a man. He and Awa become fast friends. The other comrades are Turkish, Greek and Albanian, all led by the charismatic Bosnian Mehmed Konjic, a wise counsellor and natural hero.

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Katy Moran, 2009

The Lost Kingdom

Matthew J. Kirby, 2013

The Boxes

William Sleator, 1998

Skin and Bone

Stephen Moore, 1999

Isle of Blood and Stone: Tower of Winds

Makiia Lucier, 2018

Hammer of Witches

Shana Mlawski, 2013

Darkbeast

Morgan Keyes, 2012

Forged in Fire and Stars

Andrea Cremer, Andrea Robertson, 2020